Alexander Lionel Grice (1902 - 1941)

Alexander Lionel Grice was an Air Raid Warden on duty at Sandy Lane and Lymm’s only civilian fatality.  He was killed by a bomb blast, probably jettisoned from an enemy plane passing over from the raid on Manchester that night. The fourth largest raid on Manchester during WW2.  He died on the 9th January 1941 just as he was entering an Air Raid Shelter next to the field known as the 'Mollycroft'. He was 38 years old.

His gravestone states 'he was killed at his post by enemy action on the 9th January 1941'

"His memory is ours to cherish" 

Lionel was the son of Philip and Madeline Hazelhurst Grice, of Fedw Cottage, Carrog, North Wales and husband of Norah Grice, of Burford Lane.